MAD MEN on AMC - Seasons 7(a) & & 7(b)

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re: the don disappearing from the show completely possibility, he is mentioned in the official synopsis for next week's episode, "The Milk and Honey Route:"

Don has a difficult time sleeping; a taxing friend blind sides Pete; Henry arranges a family reunion while facing a new challenge.

wonderfully vague! as expected. also it's slated to be a 61 minute episode (so maybe 54/55 actual minutes)

finale, "Person to Person," is listed as being 65 minutes.

Hah is Pete going to get punched again?

we can only hope so.

There's still that first act/third act gun thing to consider.

hmm, perhaps

speaking of mad men conspiracy theories - on pete campbell being eaten by a bear http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/04/it-is-not-too-late-for-pete-campbell-to-get-eaten-by-a-bear/

i think that's intended as a parody of how crazy some of the reddit shit (anyone remember "BOB BENSON IS PEGGY & PETE'S TIME TRAVELING CHILD?) was regarding this show, but who knows

i like that meredith has despite her goofiness (and contrary to betty's diss) developed into a hypercompetent secretary. which seems very necessary when don is your boss.

i also liked how ed, who as far as i recall has had no distinguishing characteristics before now, seemingly spent his final days in the office making phone calls to japan.

i loved the suspense of the organ + peggy before she discovered roger was in the office. the show quickly switched gears and turned into a thriller for 10 seconds. the scenes always have felt open enough for anything to happen, and this specific instance played to those strengths.

basically flexing that it could turn into something completely different at the drop of a hat, but upon showing roger w/ the organ chooses not to.

the don driving scenes were pretty eerie too

i also liked how ed, who as far as i recall has had no distinguishing characteristics before now, seemingly spent his final days in the office making phone calls to japan.

Yeah, for a weird minute I wondered if he was conversing with Lou

i liked the use of space oddity.

also liked peggy's carnival of souls tribute

Chris Mol@anphy and I among others were debating the "Space Oddity" point earlier today. It's possible local FM stations played it in 1970.

"the don driving scenes were pretty eerie too"

they reminded me of Eyes Wide Shut. I figured he'd wind up at a secret orgy.

I loved the keyboard blast of Space Oddity, it worked very well as the endcap to the episode.

possible local FM stations played it in 1970 Yeah, especially in Manhattan. Also, promo copies would circulate in Advertising. That reminds me, re what I posted a while back about Joan using her contacts elsewhere (and yay she's taking the rolodex, as somebody noted this week), could see Peggy going to print media or record companies, bribing reviewers with fabulous press junkets: "Hey, and your sister lives out there, doesn't she? If you'd like to stay and visit with her family for several days, that'd be cool too."----Geoffrey Stokes, Star-Making Machinery, a great book about a lost world.

And when she finally strolls into McCann, what's that cig hanging out of her smirk? Looks like a Krupa.

Would so much have rather heard "Kooks" last night; that would have been brilliant. ("Queen Bitch," too, but Wes Anderson already grabbed that for Steve Zissou.)

As Don was talking to Bert and fighting sleep, I started thinking, "PLease don't tell me he's going to crash...You're not really going to have him spend the last couple of episodes in a coma, are you?"

really the best thing for this show is to drop its characters, one by one, episode by episode, with Sterling the last man standing in the office.

like, I would not mind if I never saw Draper again after yesterday's perfect ending.

roger's mentioned his bad heart twice in two episodes, i know this show drops red herrings like it drops shots of whiskey but i'm nevertheless fearing he won't be standing at all

Sterling had a real Phantom of the Opera moment with that organ

I wouldn't call driving off into the sunset a perfect ending

also feel like they're aware everyone think's DD is gonna jump out a window so they make him look out the window to fuck with us a bit

hey guys at the end of the first-season finale they used Dylan's "Don't Think Twice" prematurely in a 1960 milieu, you've had 6 years to lose your anality.

*farts*

xp but the show's been on for 8 years tho who's to say people didn't get it back

they used the decemberists, didn't they? the theme tune is rjd2.

i don't think this show was really made in the 1960s

first okay ep of the season for my money but i know i'm the outlier on this thread

i mostly agree, the last few eps (before this very good one) were p bad imo

I put it second so far, after Glen's episode; the other three, so-so or worse.

i meant 7 as a whole; like last "season" as well.

hey guys at the end of the first-season finale they used Dylan's "Don't Think Twice" prematurely in a 1960 milieu, you've had 6 years to lose your anality.

that wasn't diegetic

possible local FM stations played it in 1970 Yeah, especially in Manhattan. Also, promo copies would circulate in Advertising.

Don was somewhere between Racine and St Paul

the season/midseason premiere was decent, the second and third ones were a little weak (although "the forecast" had some good scenes), but 4 and 5 are all time classics imo especially last night. if I think of this as a whole season (which I kinda don't want to), the first half is stacked and it makes sense then that there was the middle doldrums period to the whole thing

the middle doldrums being episodes like "severance," "new business," "forecast" etc

curious what the weird little japan motif amounts to.

OK...I liked a number of episodes in 7-A.

7A was almost wall-to-wall greatness wtf

a few of the earlier eps were minor-key mad men but hardly out of step quality wise with the rest of the show (which means they were pretty good to really good).

yea I don't think the show's had any legitimately bad episodes since season 6, that one did have a few clunkers

question - don's hitchhiker was heading to saint paul, would that be saint paul minnesota, meaning don was heading west (way west) from wisconsin, or is there another saint paul it could be?

yeah he's going west.

my tweet about meredith got fav'd by the actress who plays her #madeit

haha i think i am one of 2 others who favorited it.

yes, esteemed company you keep

as someone who's always harbored a cliched not-so-secret desire to drop everything and reinvent myself in california i will especially happy if that's how this turns out for don.

Joan and Don = near-enemies almost all of S6 and 7a. 7b = best of mates again! i'm pleased for them like, but.. o_0

also, when did Diana give Don her address?

She didn't. He was trial and erroring based on last name.